| Cecil B. Demented | John Waters | France, United States |
| Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Boiler Room | Ben Younger | United States |
| Brother 2 | Aleksei Balabanov | Russia |
| Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes | Kenji Kodama | Japan |
| The Whole Nine Yards | Jonathan Lynn | United States |
| Bloody Weekend | Thomas Roth | Germany, Austria |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Zero Tolerance | Anders Nilsson | Sweden |
| Black and White | James Toback | United States |
| Gloria | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Entrapment | Jon Amiel | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Analyze This | Harold Ramis | United States, Australia |
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | United States |
| Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | Canada, United States |
| The Red Violin | François Girard | United Kingdom, Canada, Italy |
| Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Wild Things | John McNaughton | United States |
| Deceiver | Jonas Pate, Josh Pate | United States |
| U Turn | Oliver Stone | France, United States |
| Kiss the Girls | Gary Fleder | United States |
| Looker | Nic Cramer | United States |
| The Frighteners | Peter Jackson | United States, New Zealand |
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | United States |
| Schizophrenia | Viktor Sergeev | Russia |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Mike Judge | United States |
| First Strike | Stanley Tong | Hong Kong |
| Ransom | Ron Howard | United States |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| The Juror | Brian Gibson | United States |
| Seven | David Fincher | United States |
| Nick of Time | John Badham | United States |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | France, United States |
| To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Assassins | Richard Donner | France, United States |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | Germany, New Zealand |
| Felidae | Michael Schaack | Germany, Denmark |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | France, United States |
| A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | United States |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | United States |
| True Romance | Tony Scott | France, United States |
| The Fugitive | Andrew Davis | United States |
| The Firm | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Consenting Adults | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Beyond the Law | Larry Ferguson | United States |
| A Stranger Among Us | Sidney Lumet | United States |